from that,how do i work it out?
n=17 in this case btw.
I know that if it's aove 0.01 we can be 99% confident in the result and that it didn't occur by chance and 0.05 is only 95% confidence ie 5% likely to have occured by chance but i don;t kow hwoi work it out from that table

from that,how do i work it out?
n=17 in this case btw.
I know that if it's aove 0.01 we can be 99% confident in the result and that it didn't occur by chance and 0.05 is only 95% confidence ie 5% likely to have occured by chance but i don;t kow hwoi work it out from that table

PLEASE help me!??!?!?!
confuzzled

I thought if it was above 0 then it was strong correlation and below 0 a weak correlation

(Original post by Mathematician!)
Asking this is the Maths forum would have been a better idea perhaps. But anyway, what did you work out as your value for Spearman's Correlation Co-efficient?

OF COURSE!!!!
IDIOT! LOL
it didn't even cross my mind......

the Rs= 0.665 n= 17

so ithe answer is 0.01 therefore we can be 99% confident in the fact that the positive correlation didn;t occur by chance

now i'm confused here.
i just had a maths friend explain it but i'm still a bit sketchy :/

so,we notice the critical values are decreasing. N=16 is .601 whilst n=18 is .564
clearly n=17 slots int eh middle. If the Rs must be equal to or greater than the critical value to be significant.
Obviously, 0.665 is greater than both n=16 and n=18 so it must be greater than nj=17 aswell,meaning we can say that it is of 0.01 significance,yes?

is it essentially a guessing game of sorts?

any chance you could explain it to me jsut so i have a concrete knowledge of it?
thanks in advance...

so ithe answer is 0.01 therefore we can be 99% confident in the fact that the positive correlation didn;t occur by chance

now i'm confused here.
i just had a maths friend explain it but i'm still a bit sketchy :/

so,we notice the critical values are decreasing. N=16 is .601 whilst n=18 is .564
clearly n=17 slots int eh middle. If the Rs must be equal to or greater than the critical value to be significant.
Obviously, 0.665 is greater than both n=16 and n=18 so it must be greater than nj=17 aswell,meaning we can say that it is of 0.01 significance,yes?

is it essentially a guessing game of sorts?

any chance you could explain it to me jsut so i have a concrete knowledge of it?
thanks in advance...